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Silviu Ivascu, Florica Moldoveanu, Alin Moldoveanu, Anca Morar, Ana-Maria Tugulea and Victor Asavei
With the increase in the number of sensory substitution devices, the engineering community is confronted with a new challenge: ensuring user training in safe virtual environments before using these devices in real-life situations. We developed a game tha...
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Naman Bhalotia, Mohnish Kumar, Abdalla Alameen, Hitesh Mohapatra and Manjur Kolhar
The life expectancy of the elderly has substantially increased compared to earlier times. The primary factors are greater awareness of nutrition, the environment, and personal hygiene. Advances in science and technology have also extended the lifespans o...
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Fausto Antonio Panizzolo, Eugenio Annese, Antonio Paoli and Giuseppe Marcolin
Difficulty walking in older adults affects their independence and ability to execute daily tasks in an autonomous way, which can result in a negative effect to their health status and risk of morbidity. Very often, reduced walking speed in older adults i...
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Betsy D. M. Chaparro-Rico, Daniele Cafolla, Marco Ceccarelli and Eduardo Castillo-Castaneda
Patients with neurological or orthopedic lesions require assistance during therapies with repetitive movements. NURSE (cassiNo-qUeretaro uppeR-limb aSsistive dEvice) is an arm movement aid device for both right- and left-upper limb. The device has a big ...
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Jong In Han, Ho Seon Choi and Yoon Su Baek
Lower extremity assistive devices (LEADs) have been developed in various fields, such as rehabilitation, military, and industry, in the form of exoskeleton robots or treadmills, and most of them are aimed at supporting muscle strength. However, unlike th...
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Enrico Dalpadulo, Francesco Gherardini, Fabio Pini and Francesco Leali
This paper presents a redesign approach integrating design for additive manufacturing and topology optimisation, which supports the designer in product and process modification. Thanks to the integration of a systematic concept selection-based approach f...
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Luz-María Sánchez-Reyes, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz, Sebastián Salazar-Colores, Gloria Nélida Avecilla-Ramírez and Gerardo Israel Pérez-Soto
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), melanoma is the most severe type of skin cancer and is the leading cause of death from skin cancer worldwide. Certain features of melanoma include size, shape, color, or texture changes of a mole. In this...
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Shiwei Chen, Dayue Yao, Huiliang Cao and Chong Shen
Action and identification problems are the challenges that visually impaired people often encounter in their lives. The high price of existing commercial intelligent auxiliary equipment has placed enormous economic pressure on most visually impaired peop...
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Tetsuro Miyazaki, Toshihiro Tagami, Daisuke Morisaki, Ryoken Miyazaki, Toshihiro Kawase, Takahiro Kanno and Kenji Kawashima
Power assistive devices have been developed in recent years. To detect the wearer?s motion, conventional devices require users to wear sensors. However, wearing many sensors increases the wearing time, and usability of the device will become worse. We de...
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Shanhai Jin, Xiaogang Xiong, Dejin Zhao, Changfu Jin and Motoji Yamamoto
As a walking assistive device for elderly persons, one of the major aims should be to improve and rehabilitate gait characteristics after long-term repeated use of the device. However, most of the existing research on walking assistive devices only empha...
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